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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

乌鸫

Pronunciation / Transliteration: wū dōng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Blackbird/ˈblæk.bɜːd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
Full Thesaurus
🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"草坪上有一只乌鸫在寻找食物。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A common Eurasian thrush (Turdus merula) in which the male is typically black with a yellow bill and the female is dark brown.

    "A male blackbird sang its melodious evening song from the top of the garden fence."
  2. 2

    Any of various other dark-colored birds, especially certain North American icterid birds.

    "Flocks of red-winged blackbirds gathered in the autumn marshlands."

Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum

Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'blæc' meaning dark in color and 'brid' meaning bird, originally referring broadly to dark-plumaged birds before specializing into the common European thrush species Turdus merula. The term parallels the Germanic etymological roots seen in the German word 'Amsel', tracing back to Proto-Germanic forms denoting dark coloration.

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